Definition of network in English:

network

noun ˈnɛtwəːkˈnɛtˌwərk

1An arrangement of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines.
网状物；网状系统
a spider constructs a complex network of several different kinds of threads
Example sentencesExamples
- For the mezzotint print, the surface is completely marked with a dense network of lines.
- From the scene before him, he evolved a network of heavy criss-cross lines, the intervals between which were filled with colour as if seen behind a lattice.
- To the right and left, a waxy black layer has been scraped away in an intricate network of boxy lines, revealing an airy green and blue underlayer.
- Smiling is a dangerous business, leaving as it does a network of fine lines round the nose and mouth, but she figures she can risk it; this is a special day, after all.
- City of York Council said the network of jagged lines in the asphalt surface had been caused by someone apparently driving a Transit van over the new bridge on Sunday evening.
- Another important function of the liver is performed by so-called ‘phagocytic’ Kupffer cells, which line the vascular networks.
- The cap is velvety, and pale brown; the foot covered with a distinctive network of white lines.
- It is a luminous network of lines, floating in three dimensions in a crystal glass cube.
- When all pairs of points are joined, the resulting network of points and lines is known as a complete graph.
- The groups are connected by smaller sets of geometric shapes and a network of yellow lines that resembles a lattice.
- The drawing consists of three loosely defined rectangles, each filled with networks of angular lines overlaid with dark red marker blobs.
Synonyms
web, criss-cross, grid, lattice, net, matrix, mesh, webbing, tracery, trellis
webwork, meshwork, latticework, openwork, filigree, fretwork
French réseau
technical reticulum, plexus, rete, reticulation, reticule, graticule
2A group or system of interconnected people or things.
人际网；网络
the company has a network of 326 branches
a trade network
商业网。
Example sentencesExamples
- These range from merchant guilds and systems of agricultural organization to regional and international trade networks.
- First, it has a follicular growth pattern with a network of follicular dendritic reticulum cells.
- In the 1980s these interconnected networks spread widely, first to universities, and then to other organisations.
- Cervical and brachial plexuses form a network of primary, interlacing nerves.
- It was established in 1991 and has since built a nation-wide network of regional branches.
- Another network of interconnected balconies allowed women to move about town from roof to roof, so the men in the streets below wouldn't see them.
- Your alliances, your trade networks, this island - all will remain intact.
- One of the distinctive features of resistance in Belgium was the important role played by intelligence networks and escape lines for Allied airmen.
- Childminding networks can also arrange backup care if your regular childminder is ill.
- In fact, racial identity is part of a complex network of intersecting identities that is contextually relevant and fluid.
- Travis runs a network of 700 branches which trade under a variety of names including Commercial Ceiling Factors and Keyline.
- The company started its campaign for expansion of its trade network in the country in 2003.
- Scottish Labour's organisational backbone is provided by a series of networks and financial arrangements between the party, unions, councils and the private sector.
- Each world's resources will further our scientific knowledge and daily living, and it is my dream that a network of trade will be set up within our solar system and beyond.
- Could an interconnected network of democracies, from the local to the global, be the political model of the future?
- Similarly, the mortgage bank Abbey National sold its branch network and head office to Mapeley in a deal valued at #465 million.
- The council has a dedicated social services department with a network of care contacts.
- The nation state is a political and economic and social system, an interconnected network of interacting individuals.
- Some findings, for example those on intercolonial trade networks based on family and religious connections, revisit relatively familiar material.
- The existence of trade networks pre-dates recorded history; commercial activities are a fundamental aspect of human existence.
Synonyms
system, complex, interconnected system/structure, complex system/arrangement, nexus, web
neural net
informal grapevine, bush telegraph, old boy network, the old school tie
1. 2.1 A complex system of railways, roads, or other routes.
  交通网络
  the railway network
  铁路系统。
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Carlow is very well located and already has excellent transport links via the national road and rail networks,’ said Mr. Bruton.
  These made, and continue to make, the city one of the most important interchanges on the rail network, as well as a major destination in its own right for business and for tourism.
  We can also see when countries finish developing their road network, as seen in Figure 11.
  He said a ‘simplistic response’ would be to reduce the network to those lines that were economically viable.
  The scientists say the rain forests are made vulnerable to clear-cutting by the networks of access roads left behind by logging operations.
  The Jubilee line is the only one that interconnects with every other line on the tube network.
  In Japan they built their Shinkansen lines to a different gauge from the rest of the network precisely because it made it impossible for other types of trains to use it.
  As explained above, a rail network consists of lines and points.
  This paper examines the typical travel time impacts of various bus priority measures to assist in the selection of appropriate treatments for particular road networks.
  The action led to severe rail disruptions in and around the Belgian capital, mainly on the busy north-south line of the network.
  But he added that officers in London, on underground and main line networks, were experiencing an increase in calls reporting suspicious packages and activity.
  The UK's rail accident rate was in line with the safest networks in Europe.
  It was Beeching's axing of much of our railway network in the 1960s that got us partly into the public transport mess we are in now.
  The Alamein line is one of two branch lines, neatly tucked away in the mid suburbs, that feeds into one of the main lines on the suburban network.
  Nine of the network's twelve lines were totally shut down.
  This relatively simple network of lines lies well and truly underground, with steep escalators taking up to two minutes to reach the platform.
  The tram network provided transport links between the streets that made up the main lines of the urban network, as well as important residential and economic areas.
  Think of the power grid as a network of crisscrossing canals, shared by all.
  They hack into government databases to get information about transport networks, government agencies and the military.
  But as road networks become more complex and street furniture more extensive, the costs of changeover have increased.
  Synonyms
  maze, labyrinth, warren, jungle, tangle
2. 2.2 A group of people who exchange information and contacts for professional or social purposes.
  （人员）网络
  a support network
  支持网络。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I challenge the thousand of you who read Brain Waves each day to use your social networks for this purpose.
  Vendors were contacted through social networks, family, and friends as well as common knowledge of people and places, particularly pubs where contraband was available.
  Wouldn't accepting the link negate the whole purpose of a social network?
  The social support of family networks obviously plays a role in this, but the quality of the marriage is also important.
  As of now, the priority for CIE is setting up a wide teacher training network and arranging a support network.
  And likewise, the multifaceted nature of people's social networks could be directly supported in this way.
  Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine social support networks between drug using and nondrug-using welfare recipients.
  Can I ask you, are there any formal or informal support networks in the Metropolitan Police for female staff?
  Common Purpose wants to hear from senior decision-makers of small and growing businesses who could benefit from new networks and exposure to different ways of solving problems.
  ‘It's using social networks not for commercial purposes, but because people feel strongly enough to get involved,’ insists Dave Balter.
  A plausible explanation for gender disparities in promotion is that women have fewer mentors and professional networks and less collegial support while in the academic medical system.
  These were people with an extensive network of social contacts.
  Depression, anxiety, and disruption of social support networks have been associated with menstrual pain.
  She helps families by supplying information and putting them in contact with support networks.
  Also, encourage support networks and social connections through teams and community organizations to serve as an extra resource.
  Many sites offer forums for the fans to discuss the band, their music and other stuff, but some go further, setting up pen-pal networks between fans in different countries.
  The other aspect underscores the elaboration of such social networks as professional associations.
  Previous research has also determined that Asians and Asian Americans tend to seek help from social networks rather than from professionals such as counselors.
  These specific effects complement the generally observed improvements in wellbeing and reduced use of health care associated with social support networks.
  If the former is your choice, contact professionals through your network at the Postal Service.
3. 2.3 A group of broadcasting stations that connect for the simultaneous broadcast of a programme.
  广播网
  as modifier network television
  电视广播网。
  Example sentencesExamples
  News chiefs from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC television networks pledged to vet incoming feeds and not broadcast them live.
  NLL games are broadcast in Canada by cable sports networks The Score and Rogers SportsNet.
  They usually leave this live breaking stuff to the cable news networks these days.
  For the first few days the three major cable news networks eschewed advertising, giving us the appearance that they were donating their public services gratis.
  The television networks broadcast rolling news without advertising breaks on the day of the crisis.
  Bells from Rome's town hall, the Campidoglio, tolled at midday as television networks interrupted programmes to show footage of New York's devastation, without commentary.
  At the time of the phone call, there were 2,391 adults viewing broadcast network television.
  Though the bottom line for the networks would likely be significantly reduced with less advertisers investing in each hour of their day.
  Produced by the BBC's network current affairs unit in Manchester, Real Story will have a three series run of 28 programmes.
  Back here in the U.S., two of the major broadcast television networks are getting into the pay per view business.
  The biggest skateboard stars are now regular performers on the sports network ESPN and on MTV.
  If you went and did - as the Media Research Center has done - clips of what is said on the broadcast networks you would find an enormous tilt to the left.
  The Forum is also shopping around to other networks another program called Finally Home as a possible midseason replacement.
  Major TV networks cancelled interviews with the crew.
  The one-hour live show will air on six broadcast networks and several cable stations.
  Broadcast networks quickly returned to basketball games and highly rated sitcoms and Oscar ceremonies, and were only mildly criticized.
  Such a stance makes most of the mainstream sitcoms on the broadcast networks inappropriate for rerunning on Comedy Central.
  And when the homemaker turned CEO left prison early Friday morning, the cable networks all took it live.
  The major news networks experience massive drops in ratings and are put on the market by their corporate owners.
  For the CBS network the final program of the current series of Survivor boosted ratings and did very well for Nine in Australia.
4. 2.4 A number of interconnected computers, machines, or operations.
  （计算机、机器或操作）网络
  a computer network
  Example sentencesExamples
  Computer workstations, networks, and graphical user interfaces were all invented by Xerox just in case the world traded paper for computer screens.
  Adware maker 180 solutions has sued seven former distributors for using networks of compromised computers to surreptitiously install its software on users' PCs.
  He's also building on the concepts of local and wide area computer networks.
  Scientists needed to come up with a new generation of computers, networks, and storage devices that would look after themselves.
  The Batley solution enables video-communication via portable devices, using connections slowed down by ordinary phone lines and old mobile networks.
  Shorn of its mobile cash cow, the company has been forced to concentrate on upgrading its fixed line network.
  This small piece of software uses computer networks and security holds to replicate itself.
  You see, the Internet is a large network of inter-connected computers.
  Over recent months, regular email spammers have used networks of compromised machines to disseminate spam.
  Some of POL's corporate clients have dozens of computers on their private networks where they need Internet access.
  Once it's on your network, you can watch full screen streaming TV on any computer in your local network.
  For that you can get a presentation on computer networks by Joseph Licklider or a book of machine translation, or various other assorted goods.
  Of companies surveyed, two in five rely on extensive networks of laptop computers used by employees who work remotely.
  It isn't going to be long before every electronic device that we own is going to automatically connect to global communications networks as a matter of course.
  Solar bursts, or so-called ‘solar storms’, can disrupt terrestrial communication networks, power grids and data lines.
  Phipps said that in the Internet world where the network truly is the computer, closed protocols have no place.
  The second wave is syntactic: attacks against the operating logic of computers and networks.
  They have an office in Sandyford in Dublin, but we've designed a computer network for their operation in Pinewood Studios in London.
  Overland Data is a global supplier of data storage and storage automation solutions for computer networks.
  Your company has a firewall, but criminal hackers often access internal networks without a computer.
5. 2.5 A system of connected electrical conductors.
  （电导体）网路
  Example sentencesExamples
  Islay has pioneered the use of small-scale wind turbines in homes and micro-grids, small-scale electrical networks that stand apart from the national grid.
  This will control a network of electrical elements, buried in shallow trenches running from Cape Wrath to Land's End.
  The electrical network in Butterworth belongs to the municipality and Eskom is investing this money on risk.
  The Turkish side also promised to study the possibility of connecting the electricity networks of the two countries, in case of fulfilling the third stage.
  Almost all Iraqi households are connected to an electricity network, with little variance between urban and rural areas.

verb ˈnɛtwəːkˈnɛtˌwərk

1with object Connect as or operate with a network.
将…连成网
compared with the railways the canals were less effectively networked
与铁路相比，运河难以变更，更无法像铁路那样有效地连成网。
Example sentencesExamples
- The 24-hours centre is manned by trained physically challenged people monitoring the stock in the various blood banks of the city that have been networked and looking up suitable donors from the site.
- We've networked a lot of areas as part of the desert knowledge movement proposals.
- Any outrage or disaster is amplified by the media and by the fact that we're so connected, so networked.
- Although very small these were the first networked communities.
- It aims to network organic producers, consumers, businesses, schools and communities.
- The work will be useful for social workers, researchers, government organisations and those involved in networking NGOs.
- The result will be ubiquitous radios that are always connected and seamlessly networked across offices, buildings, and even cities.
- The objective of the fair is to offer a window of opportunity to display, develop and network community products.
- Dealing with a traditionally networked tribal society may well require a ‘carrot and stick’ approach.
- Field medical units will be networked with the medical communications for combat casualty care, which supports the joint theater medical information program.
- This also laid foundation for upgrading the facilities to support telemedicine by networking all departments and services connected to the patient.
- This means investing in commercial research relationships, growing our own commercial centres of excellence, being networked to death, and being boastful and proud of what we have.
- This is what it means to say that the social field is networked, connected, rather than a matter of place, sites, and home.
- While each of the test centres are independently run, they are networked around the country thus ensuring that the standard requirements are adhered to.
- Delivery of healthcare expertise can be networked through health centres in villages and beyond extending the reach of healthcare to places where it does not exist.
- He was instrumental in networking all botanical gardens in Australia.
- Jackie Manatt created and manages a database that keeps Manatt's ‘extended family’ of Ph.D. students connected and networked.
- Never before had the top-down world of presidential campaigning been opened to a bottom-up, laterally networked community of ordinary voters.
- During its 25 years of operations, the national flag carrier has networked major destinations in the Gulf to ease passenger woes as the need arose.
- You will come away energized and motivated and networked and connected and ready to push your company to places it wouldn't go before.
1. 1.1British Broadcast (a programme) on a network.
  〈英〉在广播网（或电视网）联播（节目）
  the Spurs match which ITV had networked
  独立电视台联播的马刺队比赛。
  Example sentencesExamples
  SMG television boss Donald Emslie says a commitment to making more networked programmes in the regions will be a vital test of the new era of independent television.
  Soon LWT found itself having trouble getting programmes networked.
  The one programme that deserved to be networked was Discs a Gogo - which was Chris Mercer's brainchild.
  Anglia Television also managed to have a share of the children's market, when they networked a quiz series for children based on the similarly named natural history series, ‘The Survival Game’.
  In America, where the series was networked by ABC, the 14 programmes were re-edited into half-hour shows, screened from 12 April to 23 August 1972.
2. 1.2 Link (computers or other machines) to operate interactively.
  使（机器，尤其是电脑）联网
  more and more PCs are networked together
  networked workstations
  联网的工作站。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now if only they can network my laptop so I can actually print at work.
  First thing you should know is, all of them will get you online or network your computers together.
  When I saw they all had the same game on their screens I wondered if they'd networked the machines, and were having some sort of Barbie deathmatch, but no.
  It uses networked computers and multi-channel speaker playback to more closely approximate the different instruments and their ranges.
  There are also hints that the rise of online gaming may help to boost the profile of arcades, as the cabinets in them move increasingly away from being standalone machines and towards being networked devices.
  Now, we have unified logon from any networked computer.
  I have networked Linux machines on my home network consisting of two desktop machines and a laptop.
  All the computers are networked and connected to one Internet cable, so we can all be online at once.
  It will feature high-end multimedia workstations, networked wireless laptops and express-type terminals.
  So far, Saha plans to install networked servers running Linux to handle most e-mail and web-related tasks for each of the 70 schools in the area.
  Up to five computers can be networked at one time.
  To exploit these services more fully, rural communities could set up telecentres and network personal computers.
  There are more than 700 networked machines located in casinos throughout Nevada and the jackpot grows each time a coin drops into any of them.
  With Zigbee networked microprocessors you can link your lights with your cellphone.
  The company's Avid Unity MediaNetwork is designed specifically for sharing high-bandwidth digital media files between networked workstations.
  There are six networked computers providing access to the Defweb and online library services.
  We're going through a change right now, thanks to a wave of technical and social change and to the arrival of cheap, networked computers.
  Lucio came round last night with the equipment to network our computers.
  Over the past few years the premises have been completely refurbished and now includes a computer training centre with ten, fully networked computers.
  The computers (or networked device) where music is stored need not be in the rooms where you're listening.
2often as noun networkingno object Interact with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts.
the skills of networking, bargaining, and negotiation
Example sentencesExamples
- Meetings permit exchange of ideas and knowledge, professional development, and networking, while financially sustaining sponsors.
- A tourism networking and information evening will take place on Tuesday, November 15 in Castle Durrow.
- I'm a strong believer in networking and sharing information, which I do constantly.
- We get a lot of information by networking with other attendees.
- The seminar afforded committees time for networking and sharing information on the work of individual centres.
- There are three very essential functions of gossip: networking, influence and social alliances.
- However, when we take social networking online, we lose this vital piece of information and categorization.
- Promotion seekers can use information gathered through networking to improve the quality of their applications.
- Thus, he made up the term social networking to discuss what he was doing.
- Bastions of old boy networking and the occasional social upstart, they epitomise everything that makes me cringe about Oxford.
- There'll be a wide variety of workshops, discussions, skills sharing, networking, campaign information and socialising.
- The structure of the digital sector can best be understood by looking at work relations and at networking as social practice.
- An important step is researching and networking to gather information about organisations and positions, says Notton.
- This can be achieved through networking, language exchange and case studies.
- Mr Ahmed said the members, mostly Bolton-born, enjoy networking and sharing useful information and contacts.
- The most successful professionals view networking as a two-way street.
- But the clash goes beyond professional jealousies and crony networking.
- Such alliances can be developed by networking within industry trade groups and organizations that may indirectly impact your industry.
- When you don't share office space with people, things like networking and exchanging information tend to dry up.
- Such ritual practices are often only seen as interesting diversions or attachments to the main social issues involved in networking.

Derivatives

networkable

adjective ˈnɛtˌwəːkəb(ə)lˈnɛtˌwərkəb(ə)l

By sticking an Ethernet port into the base of the phone you could immediately use it to connect to printers or any non-WiFi enabled networkable device.
Example sentencesExamples
- With the robust and networkable nature of Linux, Talon provides a stable platform from which we can do what we've been doing since the beginning of time-viewing, recording and discovering the heavens.
- It's networkable, so Gnat can print off pages from her computer downstairs to color at her leisure.
- The system is networkable for communication to remote monitoring agencies through wired and/or wireless network communications and devices.
- With the proliferation of networkable devices, the challenge shifts to extend those services one last leg, within the home.

Rhymes

fretwork

Definition of network in US English:

network

nounˈnɛtˌwərkˈnetˌwərk

1An arrangement of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines.
网状物；网状系统
Example sentencesExamples
- For the mezzotint print, the surface is completely marked with a dense network of lines.
- When all pairs of points are joined, the resulting network of points and lines is known as a complete graph.
- Smiling is a dangerous business, leaving as it does a network of fine lines round the nose and mouth, but she figures she can risk it; this is a special day, after all.
- Another important function of the liver is performed by so-called ‘phagocytic’ Kupffer cells, which line the vascular networks.
- It is a luminous network of lines, floating in three dimensions in a crystal glass cube.
- The drawing consists of three loosely defined rectangles, each filled with networks of angular lines overlaid with dark red marker blobs.
- The groups are connected by smaller sets of geometric shapes and a network of yellow lines that resembles a lattice.
- The cap is velvety, and pale brown; the foot covered with a distinctive network of white lines.
- To the right and left, a waxy black layer has been scraped away in an intricate network of boxy lines, revealing an airy green and blue underlayer.
- From the scene before him, he evolved a network of heavy criss-cross lines, the intervals between which were filled with colour as if seen behind a lattice.
- City of York Council said the network of jagged lines in the asphalt surface had been caused by someone apparently driving a Transit van over the new bridge on Sunday evening.
Synonyms
web, criss-cross, grid, lattice, net, matrix, mesh, webbing, tracery, trellis
2A group or system of interconnected people or things.
人际网；网络
a trade network
商业网。
Example sentencesExamples
- First, it has a follicular growth pattern with a network of follicular dendritic reticulum cells.
- The council has a dedicated social services department with a network of care contacts.
- In the 1980s these interconnected networks spread widely, first to universities, and then to other organisations.
- It was established in 1991 and has since built a nation-wide network of regional branches.
- Similarly, the mortgage bank Abbey National sold its branch network and head office to Mapeley in a deal valued at #465 million.
- Each world's resources will further our scientific knowledge and daily living, and it is my dream that a network of trade will be set up within our solar system and beyond.
- These range from merchant guilds and systems of agricultural organization to regional and international trade networks.
- Another network of interconnected balconies allowed women to move about town from roof to roof, so the men in the streets below wouldn't see them.
- Childminding networks can also arrange backup care if your regular childminder is ill.
- Travis runs a network of 700 branches which trade under a variety of names including Commercial Ceiling Factors and Keyline.
- In fact, racial identity is part of a complex network of intersecting identities that is contextually relevant and fluid.
- The nation state is a political and economic and social system, an interconnected network of interacting individuals.
- The company started its campaign for expansion of its trade network in the country in 2003.
- One of the distinctive features of resistance in Belgium was the important role played by intelligence networks and escape lines for Allied airmen.
- Could an interconnected network of democracies, from the local to the global, be the political model of the future?
- The existence of trade networks pre-dates recorded history; commercial activities are a fundamental aspect of human existence.
- Scottish Labour's organisational backbone is provided by a series of networks and financial arrangements between the party, unions, councils and the private sector.
- Cervical and brachial plexuses form a network of primary, interlacing nerves.
- Some findings, for example those on intercolonial trade networks based on family and religious connections, revisit relatively familiar material.
- Your alliances, your trade networks, this island - all will remain intact.
Synonyms
system, complex, interconnected structure, interconnected system, complex arrangement, complex system, nexus, web
1. 2.1 A complex system of roads, railroads, or other transportation routes.
  交通网络
  a network of railroads
  Example sentencesExamples
  The tram network provided transport links between the streets that made up the main lines of the urban network, as well as important residential and economic areas.
  Think of the power grid as a network of crisscrossing canals, shared by all.
  This paper examines the typical travel time impacts of various bus priority measures to assist in the selection of appropriate treatments for particular road networks.
  They hack into government databases to get information about transport networks, government agencies and the military.
  It was Beeching's axing of much of our railway network in the 1960s that got us partly into the public transport mess we are in now.
  We can also see when countries finish developing their road network, as seen in Figure 11.
  But he added that officers in London, on underground and main line networks, were experiencing an increase in calls reporting suspicious packages and activity.
  These made, and continue to make, the city one of the most important interchanges on the rail network, as well as a major destination in its own right for business and for tourism.
  The action led to severe rail disruptions in and around the Belgian capital, mainly on the busy north-south line of the network.
  The scientists say the rain forests are made vulnerable to clear-cutting by the networks of access roads left behind by logging operations.
  This relatively simple network of lines lies well and truly underground, with steep escalators taking up to two minutes to reach the platform.
  The Jubilee line is the only one that interconnects with every other line on the tube network.
  ‘Carlow is very well located and already has excellent transport links via the national road and rail networks,’ said Mr. Bruton.
  In Japan they built their Shinkansen lines to a different gauge from the rest of the network precisely because it made it impossible for other types of trains to use it.
  He said a ‘simplistic response’ would be to reduce the network to those lines that were economically viable.
  But as road networks become more complex and street furniture more extensive, the costs of changeover have increased.
  The UK's rail accident rate was in line with the safest networks in Europe.
  Nine of the network's twelve lines were totally shut down.
  As explained above, a rail network consists of lines and points.
  The Alamein line is one of two branch lines, neatly tucked away in the mid suburbs, that feeds into one of the main lines on the suburban network.
  Synonyms
  maze, labyrinth, warren, jungle, tangle
2. 2.2 A group of people who exchange information, contacts, and experience for professional or social purposes.
  （人员）网络
  a support network
  支持网络。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If the former is your choice, contact professionals through your network at the Postal Service.
  As of now, the priority for CIE is setting up a wide teacher training network and arranging a support network.
  Depression, anxiety, and disruption of social support networks have been associated with menstrual pain.
  Many sites offer forums for the fans to discuss the band, their music and other stuff, but some go further, setting up pen-pal networks between fans in different countries.
  Can I ask you, are there any formal or informal support networks in the Metropolitan Police for female staff?
  Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine social support networks between drug using and nondrug-using welfare recipients.
  The social support of family networks obviously plays a role in this, but the quality of the marriage is also important.
  She helps families by supplying information and putting them in contact with support networks.
  Wouldn't accepting the link negate the whole purpose of a social network?
  These were people with an extensive network of social contacts.
  Common Purpose wants to hear from senior decision-makers of small and growing businesses who could benefit from new networks and exposure to different ways of solving problems.
  These specific effects complement the generally observed improvements in wellbeing and reduced use of health care associated with social support networks.
  Vendors were contacted through social networks, family, and friends as well as common knowledge of people and places, particularly pubs where contraband was available.
  Previous research has also determined that Asians and Asian Americans tend to seek help from social networks rather than from professionals such as counselors.
  I challenge the thousand of you who read Brain Waves each day to use your social networks for this purpose.
  Also, encourage support networks and social connections through teams and community organizations to serve as an extra resource.
  The other aspect underscores the elaboration of such social networks as professional associations.
  And likewise, the multifaceted nature of people's social networks could be directly supported in this way.
  ‘It's using social networks not for commercial purposes, but because people feel strongly enough to get involved,’ insists Dave Balter.
  A plausible explanation for gender disparities in promotion is that women have fewer mentors and professional networks and less collegial support while in the academic medical system.
3. 2.3 A group of broadcasting stations that connect for the simultaneous broadcast of a program.
  广播网
  as modifier network television
  电视广播网。
  the introduction of a second TV network
  Example sentencesExamples
  Back here in the U.S., two of the major broadcast television networks are getting into the pay per view business.
  If you went and did - as the Media Research Center has done - clips of what is said on the broadcast networks you would find an enormous tilt to the left.
  Produced by the BBC's network current affairs unit in Manchester, Real Story will have a three series run of 28 programmes.
  The Forum is also shopping around to other networks another program called Finally Home as a possible midseason replacement.
  Bells from Rome's town hall, the Campidoglio, tolled at midday as television networks interrupted programmes to show footage of New York's devastation, without commentary.
  NLL games are broadcast in Canada by cable sports networks The Score and Rogers SportsNet.
  Though the bottom line for the networks would likely be significantly reduced with less advertisers investing in each hour of their day.
  And when the homemaker turned CEO left prison early Friday morning, the cable networks all took it live.
  The one-hour live show will air on six broadcast networks and several cable stations.
  Major TV networks cancelled interviews with the crew.
  Broadcast networks quickly returned to basketball games and highly rated sitcoms and Oscar ceremonies, and were only mildly criticized.
  News chiefs from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC television networks pledged to vet incoming feeds and not broadcast them live.
  For the first few days the three major cable news networks eschewed advertising, giving us the appearance that they were donating their public services gratis.
  For the CBS network the final program of the current series of Survivor boosted ratings and did very well for Nine in Australia.
  Such a stance makes most of the mainstream sitcoms on the broadcast networks inappropriate for rerunning on Comedy Central.
  They usually leave this live breaking stuff to the cable news networks these days.
  At the time of the phone call, there were 2,391 adults viewing broadcast network television.
  The biggest skateboard stars are now regular performers on the sports network ESPN and on MTV.
  The television networks broadcast rolling news without advertising breaks on the day of the crisis.
  The major news networks experience massive drops in ratings and are put on the market by their corporate owners.
4. 2.4 A number of interconnected computers, machines, or operations.
  （计算机、机器或操作）网络
  specialized computers that manage multiple outside connections to a network
  a local cellular phone network
  Example sentencesExamples
  Computer workstations, networks, and graphical user interfaces were all invented by Xerox just in case the world traded paper for computer screens.
  Some of POL's corporate clients have dozens of computers on their private networks where they need Internet access.
  It isn't going to be long before every electronic device that we own is going to automatically connect to global communications networks as a matter of course.
  Shorn of its mobile cash cow, the company has been forced to concentrate on upgrading its fixed line network.
  Phipps said that in the Internet world where the network truly is the computer, closed protocols have no place.
  Scientists needed to come up with a new generation of computers, networks, and storage devices that would look after themselves.
  The second wave is syntactic: attacks against the operating logic of computers and networks.
  The Batley solution enables video-communication via portable devices, using connections slowed down by ordinary phone lines and old mobile networks.
  Once it's on your network, you can watch full screen streaming TV on any computer in your local network.
  For that you can get a presentation on computer networks by Joseph Licklider or a book of machine translation, or various other assorted goods.
  Of companies surveyed, two in five rely on extensive networks of laptop computers used by employees who work remotely.
  He's also building on the concepts of local and wide area computer networks.
  They have an office in Sandyford in Dublin, but we've designed a computer network for their operation in Pinewood Studios in London.
  Overland Data is a global supplier of data storage and storage automation solutions for computer networks.
  You see, the Internet is a large network of inter-connected computers.
  Over recent months, regular email spammers have used networks of compromised machines to disseminate spam.
  Solar bursts, or so-called ‘solar storms’, can disrupt terrestrial communication networks, power grids and data lines.
  Your company has a firewall, but criminal hackers often access internal networks without a computer.
  This small piece of software uses computer networks and security holds to replicate itself.
  Adware maker 180 solutions has sued seven former distributors for using networks of compromised computers to surreptitiously install its software on users' PCs.
5. 2.5 A system of connected electrical conductors.
  （电导体）网路
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Turkish side also promised to study the possibility of connecting the electricity networks of the two countries, in case of fulfilling the third stage.
  This will control a network of electrical elements, buried in shallow trenches running from Cape Wrath to Land's End.
  Almost all Iraqi households are connected to an electricity network, with little variance between urban and rural areas.
  Islay has pioneered the use of small-scale wind turbines in homes and micro-grids, small-scale electrical networks that stand apart from the national grid.
  The electrical network in Butterworth belongs to the municipality and Eskom is investing this money on risk.

verbˈnɛtˌwərkˈnetˌwərk

[with object]

1Connect as or operate with a network.
将…连成网
the stock exchanges have proven to be resourceful in networking these deals
Example sentencesExamples
- Jackie Manatt created and manages a database that keeps Manatt's ‘extended family’ of Ph.D. students connected and networked.
- Field medical units will be networked with the medical communications for combat casualty care, which supports the joint theater medical information program.
- It aims to network organic producers, consumers, businesses, schools and communities.
- You will come away energized and motivated and networked and connected and ready to push your company to places it wouldn't go before.
- The work will be useful for social workers, researchers, government organisations and those involved in networking NGOs.
- During its 25 years of operations, the national flag carrier has networked major destinations in the Gulf to ease passenger woes as the need arose.
- The objective of the fair is to offer a window of opportunity to display, develop and network community products.
- Although very small these were the first networked communities.
- This also laid foundation for upgrading the facilities to support telemedicine by networking all departments and services connected to the patient.
- We've networked a lot of areas as part of the desert knowledge movement proposals.
- This means investing in commercial research relationships, growing our own commercial centres of excellence, being networked to death, and being boastful and proud of what we have.
- Any outrage or disaster is amplified by the media and by the fact that we're so connected, so networked.
- Never before had the top-down world of presidential campaigning been opened to a bottom-up, laterally networked community of ordinary voters.
- While each of the test centres are independently run, they are networked around the country thus ensuring that the standard requirements are adhered to.
- Delivery of healthcare expertise can be networked through health centres in villages and beyond extending the reach of healthcare to places where it does not exist.
- The 24-hours centre is manned by trained physically challenged people monitoring the stock in the various blood banks of the city that have been networked and looking up suitable donors from the site.
- He was instrumental in networking all botanical gardens in Australia.
- This is what it means to say that the social field is networked, connected, rather than a matter of place, sites, and home.
- The result will be ubiquitous radios that are always connected and seamlessly networked across offices, buildings, and even cities.
- Dealing with a traditionally networked tribal society may well require a ‘carrot and stick’ approach.
1. 1.1 Link (machines, especially computers) to operate interactively.
  使（机器，尤其是电脑）联网
  networked workstations
  联网的工作站。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are six networked computers providing access to the Defweb and online library services.
  I have networked Linux machines on my home network consisting of two desktop machines and a laptop.
  All the computers are networked and connected to one Internet cable, so we can all be online at once.
  When I saw they all had the same game on their screens I wondered if they'd networked the machines, and were having some sort of Barbie deathmatch, but no.
  First thing you should know is, all of them will get you online or network your computers together.
  Up to five computers can be networked at one time.
  It uses networked computers and multi-channel speaker playback to more closely approximate the different instruments and their ranges.
  The computers (or networked device) where music is stored need not be in the rooms where you're listening.
  There are also hints that the rise of online gaming may help to boost the profile of arcades, as the cabinets in them move increasingly away from being standalone machines and towards being networked devices.
  Now, we have unified logon from any networked computer.
  Lucio came round last night with the equipment to network our computers.
  So far, Saha plans to install networked servers running Linux to handle most e-mail and web-related tasks for each of the 70 schools in the area.
  There are more than 700 networked machines located in casinos throughout Nevada and the jackpot grows each time a coin drops into any of them.
  With Zigbee networked microprocessors you can link your lights with your cellphone.
  It will feature high-end multimedia workstations, networked wireless laptops and express-type terminals.
  We're going through a change right now, thanks to a wave of technical and social change and to the arrival of cheap, networked computers.
  The company's Avid Unity MediaNetwork is designed specifically for sharing high-bandwidth digital media files between networked workstations.
  To exploit these services more fully, rural communities could set up telecentres and network personal computers.
  Now if only they can network my laptop so I can actually print at work.
  Over the past few years the premises have been completely refurbished and now includes a computer training centre with ten, fully networked computers.
2. 1.2often as noun networkingno object Interact with other people to exchange information and develop contacts, especially to further one's career.
  结成关系网
  the skills of networking, bargaining, and negotiation
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thus, he made up the term social networking to discuss what he was doing.
  Promotion seekers can use information gathered through networking to improve the quality of their applications.
  We get a lot of information by networking with other attendees.
  The structure of the digital sector can best be understood by looking at work relations and at networking as social practice.
  There'll be a wide variety of workshops, discussions, skills sharing, networking, campaign information and socialising.
  This can be achieved through networking, language exchange and case studies.
  When you don't share office space with people, things like networking and exchanging information tend to dry up.
  Mr Ahmed said the members, mostly Bolton-born, enjoy networking and sharing useful information and contacts.
  Such alliances can be developed by networking within industry trade groups and organizations that may indirectly impact your industry.
  But the clash goes beyond professional jealousies and crony networking.
  Meetings permit exchange of ideas and knowledge, professional development, and networking, while financially sustaining sponsors.
  An important step is researching and networking to gather information about organisations and positions, says Notton.
  Such ritual practices are often only seen as interesting diversions or attachments to the main social issues involved in networking.
  Bastions of old boy networking and the occasional social upstart, they epitomise everything that makes me cringe about Oxford.
  The seminar afforded committees time for networking and sharing information on the work of individual centres.
  However, when we take social networking online, we lose this vital piece of information and categorization.
  There are three very essential functions of gossip: networking, influence and social alliances.
  I'm a strong believer in networking and sharing information, which I do constantly.
  The most successful professionals view networking as a two-way street.
  A tourism networking and information evening will take place on Tuesday, November 15 in Castle Durrow.

单词	network
释义	Definition of network in English: network noun ˈnɛtwəːkˈnɛtˌwərk 1An arrangement of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines. 网状物；网状系统 a spider constructs a complex network of several different kinds of threads Example sentencesExamples For the mezzotint print, the surface is completely marked with a dense network of lines. From the scene before him, he evolved a network of heavy criss-cross lines, the intervals between which were filled with colour as if seen behind a lattice. To the right and left, a waxy black layer has been scraped away in an intricate network of boxy lines, revealing an airy green and blue underlayer. Smiling is a dangerous business, leaving as it does a network of fine lines round the nose and mouth, but she figures she can risk it; this is a special day, after all. City of York Council said the network of jagged lines in the asphalt surface had been caused by someone apparently driving a Transit van over the new bridge on Sunday evening. Another important function of the liver is performed by so-called ‘phagocytic’ Kupffer cells, which line the vascular networks. The cap is velvety, and pale brown; the foot covered with a distinctive network of white lines. It is a luminous network of lines, floating in three dimensions in a crystal glass cube. When all pairs of points are joined, the resulting network of points and lines is known as a complete graph. The groups are connected by smaller sets of geometric shapes and a network of yellow lines that resembles a lattice. The drawing consists of three loosely defined rectangles, each filled with networks of angular lines overlaid with dark red marker blobs. Synonyms web, criss-cross, grid, lattice, net, matrix, mesh, webbing, tracery, trellis webwork, meshwork, latticework, openwork, filigree, fretwork French réseau technical reticulum, plexus, rete, reticulation, reticule, graticule 2A group or system of interconnected people or things. 人际网；网络 the company has a network of 326 branches a trade network 商业网。 Example sentencesExamples These range from merchant guilds and systems of agricultural organization to regional and international trade networks. First, it has a follicular growth pattern with a network of follicular dendritic reticulum cells. In the 1980s these interconnected networks spread widely, first to universities, and then to other organisations. Cervical and brachial plexuses form a network of primary, interlacing nerves. It was established in 1991 and has since built a nation-wide network of regional branches. Another network of interconnected balconies allowed women to move about town from roof to roof, so the men in the streets below wouldn't see them. Your alliances, your trade networks, this island - all will remain intact. One of the distinctive features of resistance in Belgium was the important role played by intelligence networks and escape lines for Allied airmen. Childminding networks can also arrange backup care if your regular childminder is ill. In fact, racial identity is part of a complex network of intersecting identities that is contextually relevant and fluid. Travis runs a network of 700 branches which trade under a variety of names including Commercial Ceiling Factors and Keyline. The company started its campaign for expansion of its trade network in the country in 2003. Scottish Labour's organisational backbone is provided by a series of networks and financial arrangements between the party, unions, councils and the private sector. Each world's resources will further our scientific knowledge and daily living, and it is my dream that a network of trade will be set up within our solar system and beyond. Could an interconnected network of democracies, from the local to the global, be the political model of the future? Similarly, the mortgage bank Abbey National sold its branch network and head office to Mapeley in a deal valued at #465 million. The council has a dedicated social services department with a network of care contacts. The nation state is a political and economic and social system, an interconnected network of interacting individuals. Some findings, for example those on intercolonial trade networks based on family and religious connections, revisit relatively familiar material. The existence of trade networks pre-dates recorded history; commercial activities are a fundamental aspect of human existence. Synonyms system, complex, interconnected system/structure, complex system/arrangement, nexus, web neural net informal grapevine, bush telegraph, old boy network, the old school tie 2.1 A complex system of railways, roads, or other routes. 交通网络 the railway network 铁路系统。 Example sentencesExamples ‘Carlow is very well located and already has excellent transport links via the national road and rail networks,’ said Mr. Bruton. These made, and continue to make, the city one of the most important interchanges on the rail network, as well as a major destination in its own right for business and for tourism. We can also see when countries finish developing their road network, as seen in Figure 11. He said a ‘simplistic response’ would be to reduce the network to those lines that were economically viable. The scientists say the rain forests are made vulnerable to clear-cutting by the networks of access roads left behind by logging operations. The Jubilee line is the only one that interconnects with every other line on the tube network. In Japan they built their Shinkansen lines to a different gauge from the rest of the network precisely because it made it impossible for other types of trains to use it. As explained above, a rail network consists of lines and points. This paper examines the typical travel time impacts of various bus priority measures to assist in the selection of appropriate treatments for particular road networks. The action led to severe rail disruptions in and around the Belgian capital, mainly on the busy north-south line of the network. But he added that officers in London, on underground and main line networks, were experiencing an increase in calls reporting suspicious packages and activity. The UK's rail accident rate was in line with the safest networks in Europe. It was Beeching's axing of much of our railway network in the 1960s that got us partly into the public transport mess we are in now. The Alamein line is one of two branch lines, neatly tucked away in the mid suburbs, that feeds into one of the main lines on the suburban network. Nine of the network's twelve lines were totally shut down. This relatively simple network of lines lies well and truly underground, with steep escalators taking up to two minutes to reach the platform. The tram network provided transport links between the streets that made up the main lines of the urban network, as well as important residential and economic areas. Think of the power grid as a network of crisscrossing canals, shared by all. They hack into government databases to get information about transport networks, government agencies and the military. But as road networks become more complex and street furniture more extensive, the costs of changeover have increased. Synonyms maze, labyrinth, warren, jungle, tangle 2.2 A group of people who exchange information and contacts for professional or social purposes. （人员）网络 a support network 支持网络。 Example sentencesExamples I challenge the thousand of you who read Brain Waves each day to use your social networks for this purpose. Vendors were contacted through social networks, family, and friends as well as common knowledge of people and places, particularly pubs where contraband was available. Wouldn't accepting the link negate the whole purpose of a social network? The social support of family networks obviously plays a role in this, but the quality of the marriage is also important. As of now, the priority for CIE is setting up a wide teacher training network and arranging a support network. And likewise, the multifaceted nature of people's social networks could be directly supported in this way. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine social support networks between drug using and nondrug-using welfare recipients. Can I ask you, are there any formal or informal support networks in the Metropolitan Police for female staff? Common Purpose wants to hear from senior decision-makers of small and growing businesses who could benefit from new networks and exposure to different ways of solving problems. ‘It's using social networks not for commercial purposes, but because people feel strongly enough to get involved,’ insists Dave Balter. A plausible explanation for gender disparities in promotion is that women have fewer mentors and professional networks and less collegial support while in the academic medical system. These were people with an extensive network of social contacts. Depression, anxiety, and disruption of social support networks have been associated with menstrual pain. She helps families by supplying information and putting them in contact with support networks. Also, encourage support networks and social connections through teams and community organizations to serve as an extra resource. Many sites offer forums for the fans to discuss the band, their music and other stuff, but some go further, setting up pen-pal networks between fans in different countries. The other aspect underscores the elaboration of such social networks as professional associations. Previous research has also determined that Asians and Asian Americans tend to seek help from social networks rather than from professionals such as counselors. These specific effects complement the generally observed improvements in wellbeing and reduced use of health care associated with social support networks. If the former is your choice, contact professionals through your network at the Postal Service. 2.3 A group of broadcasting stations that connect for the simultaneous broadcast of a programme. 广播网 as modifier network television 电视广播网。 Example sentencesExamples News chiefs from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC television networks pledged to vet incoming feeds and not broadcast them live. NLL games are broadcast in Canada by cable sports networks The Score and Rogers SportsNet. They usually leave this live breaking stuff to the cable news networks these days. For the first few days the three major cable news networks eschewed advertising, giving us the appearance that they were donating their public services gratis. The television networks broadcast rolling news without advertising breaks on the day of the crisis. Bells from Rome's town hall, the Campidoglio, tolled at midday as television networks interrupted programmes to show footage of New York's devastation, without commentary. At the time of the phone call, there were 2,391 adults viewing broadcast network television. Though the bottom line for the networks would likely be significantly reduced with less advertisers investing in each hour of their day. Produced by the BBC's network current affairs unit in Manchester, Real Story will have a three series run of 28 programmes. Back here in the U.S., two of the major broadcast television networks are getting into the pay per view business. The biggest skateboard stars are now regular performers on the sports network ESPN and on MTV. If you went and did - as the Media Research Center has done - clips of what is said on the broadcast networks you would find an enormous tilt to the left. The Forum is also shopping around to other networks another program called Finally Home as a possible midseason replacement. Major TV networks cancelled interviews with the crew. The one-hour live show will air on six broadcast networks and several cable stations. Broadcast networks quickly returned to basketball games and highly rated sitcoms and Oscar ceremonies, and were only mildly criticized. Such a stance makes most of the mainstream sitcoms on the broadcast networks inappropriate for rerunning on Comedy Central. And when the homemaker turned CEO left prison early Friday morning, the cable networks all took it live. The major news networks experience massive drops in ratings and are put on the market by their corporate owners. For the CBS network the final program of the current series of Survivor boosted ratings and did very well for Nine in Australia. 2.4 A number of interconnected computers, machines, or operations. （计算机、机器或操作）网络 a computer network Example sentencesExamples Computer workstations, networks, and graphical user interfaces were all invented by Xerox just in case the world traded paper for computer screens. Adware maker 180 solutions has sued seven former distributors for using networks of compromised computers to surreptitiously install its software on users' PCs. He's also building on the concepts of local and wide area computer networks. Scientists needed to come up with a new generation of computers, networks, and storage devices that would look after themselves. The Batley solution enables video-communication via portable devices, using connections slowed down by ordinary phone lines and old mobile networks. Shorn of its mobile cash cow, the company has been forced to concentrate on upgrading its fixed line network. This small piece of software uses computer networks and security holds to replicate itself. You see, the Internet is a large network of inter-connected computers. Over recent months, regular email spammers have used networks of compromised machines to disseminate spam. Some of POL's corporate clients have dozens of computers on their private networks where they need Internet access. Once it's on your network, you can watch full screen streaming TV on any computer in your local network. For that you can get a presentation on computer networks by Joseph Licklider or a book of machine translation, or various other assorted goods. Of companies surveyed, two in five rely on extensive networks of laptop computers used by employees who work remotely. It isn't going to be long before every electronic device that we own is going to automatically connect to global communications networks as a matter of course. Solar bursts, or so-called ‘solar storms’, can disrupt terrestrial communication networks, power grids and data lines. Phipps said that in the Internet world where the network truly is the computer, closed protocols have no place. The second wave is syntactic: attacks against the operating logic of computers and networks. They have an office in Sandyford in Dublin, but we've designed a computer network for their operation in Pinewood Studios in London. Overland Data is a global supplier of data storage and storage automation solutions for computer networks. Your company has a firewall, but criminal hackers often access internal networks without a computer. 2.5 A system of connected electrical conductors. （电导体）网路 Example sentencesExamples Islay has pioneered the use of small-scale wind turbines in homes and micro-grids, small-scale electrical networks that stand apart from the national grid. This will control a network of electrical elements, buried in shallow trenches running from Cape Wrath to Land's End. The electrical network in Butterworth belongs to the municipality and Eskom is investing this money on risk. The Turkish side also promised to study the possibility of connecting the electricity networks of the two countries, in case of fulfilling the third stage. Almost all Iraqi households are connected to an electricity network, with little variance between urban and rural areas. verb ˈnɛtwəːkˈnɛtˌwərk 1with object Connect as or operate with a network. 将…连成网 compared with the railways the canals were less effectively networked 与铁路相比，运河难以变更，更无法像铁路那样有效地连成网。 Example sentencesExamples The 24-hours centre is manned by trained physically challenged people monitoring the stock in the various blood banks of the city that have been networked and looking up suitable donors from the site. We've networked a lot of areas as part of the desert knowledge movement proposals. Any outrage or disaster is amplified by the media and by the fact that we're so connected, so networked. Although very small these were the first networked communities. It aims to network organic producers, consumers, businesses, schools and communities. The work will be useful for social workers, researchers, government organisations and those involved in networking NGOs. The result will be ubiquitous radios that are always connected and seamlessly networked across offices, buildings, and even cities. The objective of the fair is to offer a window of opportunity to display, develop and network community products. Dealing with a traditionally networked tribal society may well require a ‘carrot and stick’ approach. Field medical units will be networked with the medical communications for combat casualty care, which supports the joint theater medical information program. This also laid foundation for upgrading the facilities to support telemedicine by networking all departments and services connected to the patient. This means investing in commercial research relationships, growing our own commercial centres of excellence, being networked to death, and being boastful and proud of what we have. This is what it means to say that the social field is networked, connected, rather than a matter of place, sites, and home. While each of the test centres are independently run, they are networked around the country thus ensuring that the standard requirements are adhered to. Delivery of healthcare expertise can be networked through health centres in villages and beyond extending the reach of healthcare to places where it does not exist. He was instrumental in networking all botanical gardens in Australia. Jackie Manatt created and manages a database that keeps Manatt's ‘extended family’ of Ph.D. students connected and networked. Never before had the top-down world of presidential campaigning been opened to a bottom-up, laterally networked community of ordinary voters. During its 25 years of operations, the national flag carrier has networked major destinations in the Gulf to ease passenger woes as the need arose. You will come away energized and motivated and networked and connected and ready to push your company to places it wouldn't go before. 1.1British Broadcast (a programme) on a network. 〈英〉在广播网（或电视网）联播（节目） the Spurs match which ITV had networked 独立电视台联播的马刺队比赛。 Example sentencesExamples SMG television boss Donald Emslie says a commitment to making more networked programmes in the regions will be a vital test of the new era of independent television. Soon LWT found itself having trouble getting programmes networked. The one programme that deserved to be networked was Discs a Gogo - which was Chris Mercer's brainchild. Anglia Television also managed to have a share of the children's market, when they networked a quiz series for children based on the similarly named natural history series, ‘The Survival Game’. In America, where the series was networked by ABC, the 14 programmes were re-edited into half-hour shows, screened from 12 April to 23 August 1972. 1.2 Link (computers or other machines) to operate interactively. 使（机器，尤其是电脑）联网 more and more PCs are networked together networked workstations 联网的工作站。 Example sentencesExamples Now if only they can network my laptop so I can actually print at work. First thing you should know is, all of them will get you online or network your computers together. When I saw they all had the same game on their screens I wondered if they'd networked the machines, and were having some sort of Barbie deathmatch, but no. It uses networked computers and multi-channel speaker playback to more closely approximate the different instruments and their ranges. There are also hints that the rise of online gaming may help to boost the profile of arcades, as the cabinets in them move increasingly away from being standalone machines and towards being networked devices. Now, we have unified logon from any networked computer. I have networked Linux machines on my home network consisting of two desktop machines and a laptop. All the computers are networked and connected to one Internet cable, so we can all be online at once. It will feature high-end multimedia workstations, networked wireless laptops and express-type terminals. So far, Saha plans to install networked servers running Linux to handle most e-mail and web-related tasks for each of the 70 schools in the area. Up to five computers can be networked at one time. To exploit these services more fully, rural communities could set up telecentres and network personal computers. There are more than 700 networked machines located in casinos throughout Nevada and the jackpot grows each time a coin drops into any of them. With Zigbee networked microprocessors you can link your lights with your cellphone. The company's Avid Unity MediaNetwork is designed specifically for sharing high-bandwidth digital media files between networked workstations. There are six networked computers providing access to the Defweb and online library services. We're going through a change right now, thanks to a wave of technical and social change and to the arrival of cheap, networked computers. Lucio came round last night with the equipment to network our computers. Over the past few years the premises have been completely refurbished and now includes a computer training centre with ten, fully networked computers. The computers (or networked device) where music is stored need not be in the rooms where you're listening. 2often as noun networkingno object Interact with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts. the skills of networking, bargaining, and negotiation Example sentencesExamples Meetings permit exchange of ideas and knowledge, professional development, and networking, while financially sustaining sponsors. A tourism networking and information evening will take place on Tuesday, November 15 in Castle Durrow. I'm a strong believer in networking and sharing information, which I do constantly. We get a lot of information by networking with other attendees. The seminar afforded committees time for networking and sharing information on the work of individual centres. There are three very essential functions of gossip: networking, influence and social alliances. However, when we take social networking online, we lose this vital piece of information and categorization. Promotion seekers can use information gathered through networking to improve the quality of their applications. Thus, he made up the term social networking to discuss what he was doing. Bastions of old boy networking and the occasional social upstart, they epitomise everything that makes me cringe about Oxford. There'll be a wide variety of workshops, discussions, skills sharing, networking, campaign information and socialising. The structure of the digital sector can best be understood by looking at work relations and at networking as social practice. An important step is researching and networking to gather information about organisations and positions, says Notton. This can be achieved through networking, language exchange and case studies. Mr Ahmed said the members, mostly Bolton-born, enjoy networking and sharing useful information and contacts. The most successful professionals view networking as a two-way street. But the clash goes beyond professional jealousies and crony networking. Such alliances can be developed by networking within industry trade groups and organizations that may indirectly impact your industry. When you don't share office space with people, things like networking and exchanging information tend to dry up. Such ritual practices are often only seen as interesting diversions or attachments to the main social issues involved in networking. Derivatives networkable adjective ˈnɛtˌwəːkəb(ə)lˈnɛtˌwərkəb(ə)l By sticking an Ethernet port into the base of the phone you could immediately use it to connect to printers or any non-WiFi enabled networkable device. Example sentencesExamples With the robust and networkable nature of Linux, Talon provides a stable platform from which we can do what we've been doing since the beginning of time-viewing, recording and discovering the heavens. It's networkable, so Gnat can print off pages from her computer downstairs to color at her leisure. The system is networkable for communication to remote monitoring agencies through wired and/or wireless network communications and devices. With the proliferation of networkable devices, the challenge shifts to extend those services one last leg, within the home. Rhymes fretwork Definition of network in US English: network nounˈnɛtˌwərkˈnetˌwərk 1An arrangement of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines. 网状物；网状系统 Example sentencesExamples For the mezzotint print, the surface is completely marked with a dense network of lines. When all pairs of points are joined, the resulting network of points and lines is known as a complete graph. Smiling is a dangerous business, leaving as it does a network of fine lines round the nose and mouth, but she figures she can risk it; this is a special day, after all. Another important function of the liver is performed by so-called ‘phagocytic’ Kupffer cells, which line the vascular networks. It is a luminous network of lines, floating in three dimensions in a crystal glass cube. The drawing consists of three loosely defined rectangles, each filled with networks of angular lines overlaid with dark red marker blobs. The groups are connected by smaller sets of geometric shapes and a network of yellow lines that resembles a lattice. The cap is velvety, and pale brown; the foot covered with a distinctive network of white lines. To the right and left, a waxy black layer has been scraped away in an intricate network of boxy lines, revealing an airy green and blue underlayer. From the scene before him, he evolved a network of heavy criss-cross lines, the intervals between which were filled with colour as if seen behind a lattice. City of York Council said the network of jagged lines in the asphalt surface had been caused by someone apparently driving a Transit van over the new bridge on Sunday evening. Synonyms web, criss-cross, grid, lattice, net, matrix, mesh, webbing, tracery, trellis 2A group or system of interconnected people or things. 人际网；网络 a trade network 商业网。 Example sentencesExamples First, it has a follicular growth pattern with a network of follicular dendritic reticulum cells. The council has a dedicated social services department with a network of care contacts. In the 1980s these interconnected networks spread widely, first to universities, and then to other organisations. It was established in 1991 and has since built a nation-wide network of regional branches. Similarly, the mortgage bank Abbey National sold its branch network and head office to Mapeley in a deal valued at #465 million. Each world's resources will further our scientific knowledge and daily living, and it is my dream that a network of trade will be set up within our solar system and beyond. These range from merchant guilds and systems of agricultural organization to regional and international trade networks. Another network of interconnected balconies allowed women to move about town from roof to roof, so the men in the streets below wouldn't see them. Childminding networks can also arrange backup care if your regular childminder is ill. Travis runs a network of 700 branches which trade under a variety of names including Commercial Ceiling Factors and Keyline. In fact, racial identity is part of a complex network of intersecting identities that is contextually relevant and fluid. The nation state is a political and economic and social system, an interconnected network of interacting individuals. The company started its campaign for expansion of its trade network in the country in 2003. One of the distinctive features of resistance in Belgium was the important role played by intelligence networks and escape lines for Allied airmen. Could an interconnected network of democracies, from the local to the global, be the political model of the future? The existence of trade networks pre-dates recorded history; commercial activities are a fundamental aspect of human existence. Scottish Labour's organisational backbone is provided by a series of networks and financial arrangements between the party, unions, councils and the private sector. Cervical and brachial plexuses form a network of primary, interlacing nerves. Some findings, for example those on intercolonial trade networks based on family and religious connections, revisit relatively familiar material. Your alliances, your trade networks, this island - all will remain intact. Synonyms system, complex, interconnected structure, interconnected system, complex arrangement, complex system, nexus, web 2.1 A complex system of roads, railroads, or other transportation routes. 交通网络 a network of railroads Example sentencesExamples The tram network provided transport links between the streets that made up the main lines of the urban network, as well as important residential and economic areas. Think of the power grid as a network of crisscrossing canals, shared by all. This paper examines the typical travel time impacts of various bus priority measures to assist in the selection of appropriate treatments for particular road networks. They hack into government databases to get information about transport networks, government agencies and the military. It was Beeching's axing of much of our railway network in the 1960s that got us partly into the public transport mess we are in now. We can also see when countries finish developing their road network, as seen in Figure 11. But he added that officers in London, on underground and main line networks, were experiencing an increase in calls reporting suspicious packages and activity. These made, and continue to make, the city one of the most important interchanges on the rail network, as well as a major destination in its own right for business and for tourism. The action led to severe rail disruptions in and around the Belgian capital, mainly on the busy north-south line of the network. The scientists say the rain forests are made vulnerable to clear-cutting by the networks of access roads left behind by logging operations. This relatively simple network of lines lies well and truly underground, with steep escalators taking up to two minutes to reach the platform. The Jubilee line is the only one that interconnects with every other line on the tube network. ‘Carlow is very well located and already has excellent transport links via the national road and rail networks,’ said Mr. Bruton. In Japan they built their Shinkansen lines to a different gauge from the rest of the network precisely because it made it impossible for other types of trains to use it. He said a ‘simplistic response’ would be to reduce the network to those lines that were economically viable. But as road networks become more complex and street furniture more extensive, the costs of changeover have increased. The UK's rail accident rate was in line with the safest networks in Europe. Nine of the network's twelve lines were totally shut down. As explained above, a rail network consists of lines and points. The Alamein line is one of two branch lines, neatly tucked away in the mid suburbs, that feeds into one of the main lines on the suburban network. Synonyms maze, labyrinth, warren, jungle, tangle 2.2 A group of people who exchange information, contacts, and experience for professional or social purposes. （人员）网络 a support network 支持网络。 Example sentencesExamples If the former is your choice, contact professionals through your network at the Postal Service. As of now, the priority for CIE is setting up a wide teacher training network and arranging a support network. Depression, anxiety, and disruption of social support networks have been associated with menstrual pain. Many sites offer forums for the fans to discuss the band, their music and other stuff, but some go further, setting up pen-pal networks between fans in different countries. Can I ask you, are there any formal or informal support networks in the Metropolitan Police for female staff? Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine social support networks between drug using and nondrug-using welfare recipients. The social support of family networks obviously plays a role in this, but the quality of the marriage is also important. She helps families by supplying information and putting them in contact with support networks. Wouldn't accepting the link negate the whole purpose of a social network? These were people with an extensive network of social contacts. Common Purpose wants to hear from senior decision-makers of small and growing businesses who could benefit from new networks and exposure to different ways of solving problems. These specific effects complement the generally observed improvements in wellbeing and reduced use of health care associated with social support networks. Vendors were contacted through social networks, family, and friends as well as common knowledge of people and places, particularly pubs where contraband was available. Previous research has also determined that Asians and Asian Americans tend to seek help from social networks rather than from professionals such as counselors. I challenge the thousand of you who read Brain Waves each day to use your social networks for this purpose. Also, encourage support networks and social connections through teams and community organizations to serve as an extra resource. The other aspect underscores the elaboration of such social networks as professional associations. And likewise, the multifaceted nature of people's social networks could be directly supported in this way. ‘It's using social networks not for commercial purposes, but because people feel strongly enough to get involved,’ insists Dave Balter. A plausible explanation for gender disparities in promotion is that women have fewer mentors and professional networks and less collegial support while in the academic medical system. 2.3 A group of broadcasting stations that connect for the simultaneous broadcast of a program. 广播网 as modifier network television 电视广播网。 the introduction of a second TV network Example sentencesExamples Back here in the U.S., two of the major broadcast television networks are getting into the pay per view business. If you went and did - as the Media Research Center has done - clips of what is said on the broadcast networks you would find an enormous tilt to the left. Produced by the BBC's network current affairs unit in Manchester, Real Story will have a three series run of 28 programmes. The Forum is also shopping around to other networks another program called Finally Home as a possible midseason replacement. Bells from Rome's town hall, the Campidoglio, tolled at midday as television networks interrupted programmes to show footage of New York's devastation, without commentary. NLL games are broadcast in Canada by cable sports networks The Score and Rogers SportsNet. Though the bottom line for the networks would likely be significantly reduced with less advertisers investing in each hour of their day. And when the homemaker turned CEO left prison early Friday morning, the cable networks all took it live. The one-hour live show will air on six broadcast networks and several cable stations. Major TV networks cancelled interviews with the crew. Broadcast networks quickly returned to basketball games and highly rated sitcoms and Oscar ceremonies, and were only mildly criticized. News chiefs from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC television networks pledged to vet incoming feeds and not broadcast them live. For the first few days the three major cable news networks eschewed advertising, giving us the appearance that they were donating their public services gratis. For the CBS network the final program of the current series of Survivor boosted ratings and did very well for Nine in Australia. Such a stance makes most of the mainstream sitcoms on the broadcast networks inappropriate for rerunning on Comedy Central. They usually leave this live breaking stuff to the cable news networks these days. At the time of the phone call, there were 2,391 adults viewing broadcast network television. The biggest skateboard stars are now regular performers on the sports network ESPN and on MTV. The television networks broadcast rolling news without advertising breaks on the day of the crisis. The major news networks experience massive drops in ratings and are put on the market by their corporate owners. 2.4 A number of interconnected computers, machines, or operations. （计算机、机器或操作）网络 specialized computers that manage multiple outside connections to a network a local cellular phone network Example sentencesExamples Computer workstations, networks, and graphical user interfaces were all invented by Xerox just in case the world traded paper for computer screens. Some of POL's corporate clients have dozens of computers on their private networks where they need Internet access. It isn't going to be long before every electronic device that we own is going to automatically connect to global communications networks as a matter of course. Shorn of its mobile cash cow, the company has been forced to concentrate on upgrading its fixed line network. Phipps said that in the Internet world where the network truly is the computer, closed protocols have no place. Scientists needed to come up with a new generation of computers, networks, and storage devices that would look after themselves. The second wave is syntactic: attacks against the operating logic of computers and networks. The Batley solution enables video-communication via portable devices, using connections slowed down by ordinary phone lines and old mobile networks. Once it's on your network, you can watch full screen streaming TV on any computer in your local network. For that you can get a presentation on computer networks by Joseph Licklider or a book of machine translation, or various other assorted goods. Of companies surveyed, two in five rely on extensive networks of laptop computers used by employees who work remotely. He's also building on the concepts of local and wide area computer networks. They have an office in Sandyford in Dublin, but we've designed a computer network for their operation in Pinewood Studios in London. Overland Data is a global supplier of data storage and storage automation solutions for computer networks. You see, the Internet is a large network of inter-connected computers. Over recent months, regular email spammers have used networks of compromised machines to disseminate spam. Solar bursts, or so-called ‘solar storms’, can disrupt terrestrial communication networks, power grids and data lines. Your company has a firewall, but criminal hackers often access internal networks without a computer. This small piece of software uses computer networks and security holds to replicate itself. Adware maker 180 solutions has sued seven former distributors for using networks of compromised computers to surreptitiously install its software on users' PCs. 2.5 A system of connected electrical conductors. （电导体）网路 Example sentencesExamples The Turkish side also promised to study the possibility of connecting the electricity networks of the two countries, in case of fulfilling the third stage. This will control a network of electrical elements, buried in shallow trenches running from Cape Wrath to Land's End. Almost all Iraqi households are connected to an electricity network, with little variance between urban and rural areas. Islay has pioneered the use of small-scale wind turbines in homes and micro-grids, small-scale electrical networks that stand apart from the national grid. The electrical network in Butterworth belongs to the municipality and Eskom is investing this money on risk. verbˈnɛtˌwərkˈnetˌwərk [with object] 1Connect as or operate with a network. 将…连成网 the stock exchanges have proven to be resourceful in networking these deals Example sentencesExamples Jackie Manatt created and manages a database that keeps Manatt's ‘extended family’ of Ph.D. students connected and networked. Field medical units will be networked with the medical communications for combat casualty care, which supports the joint theater medical information program. It aims to network organic producers, consumers, businesses, schools and communities. You will come away energized and motivated and networked and connected and ready to push your company to places it wouldn't go before. The work will be useful for social workers, researchers, government organisations and those involved in networking NGOs. During its 25 years of operations, the national flag carrier has networked major destinations in the Gulf to ease passenger woes as the need arose. The objective of the fair is to offer a window of opportunity to display, develop and network community products. Although very small these were the first networked communities. This also laid foundation for upgrading the facilities to support telemedicine by networking all departments and services connected to the patient. We've networked a lot of areas as part of the desert knowledge movement proposals. This means investing in commercial research relationships, growing our own commercial centres of excellence, being networked to death, and being boastful and proud of what we have. Any outrage or disaster is amplified by the media and by the fact that we're so connected, so networked. Never before had the top-down world of presidential campaigning been opened to a bottom-up, laterally networked community of ordinary voters. While each of the test centres are independently run, they are networked around the country thus ensuring that the standard requirements are adhered to. Delivery of healthcare expertise can be networked through health centres in villages and beyond extending the reach of healthcare to places where it does not exist. The 24-hours centre is manned by trained physically challenged people monitoring the stock in the various blood banks of the city that have been networked and looking up suitable donors from the site. He was instrumental in networking all botanical gardens in Australia. This is what it means to say that the social field is networked, connected, rather than a matter of place, sites, and home. The result will be ubiquitous radios that are always connected and seamlessly networked across offices, buildings, and even cities. Dealing with a traditionally networked tribal society may well require a ‘carrot and stick’ approach. 1.1 Link (machines, especially computers) to operate interactively. 使（机器，尤其是电脑）联网 networked workstations 联网的工作站。 Example sentencesExamples There are six networked computers providing access to the Defweb and online library services. I have networked Linux machines on my home network consisting of two desktop machines and a laptop. All the computers are networked and connected to one Internet cable, so we can all be online at once. When I saw they all had the same game on their screens I wondered if they'd networked the machines, and were having some sort of Barbie deathmatch, but no. First thing you should know is, all of them will get you online or network your computers together. Up to five computers can be networked at one time. It uses networked computers and multi-channel speaker playback to more closely approximate the different instruments and their ranges. The computers (or networked device) where music is stored need not be in the rooms where you're listening. There are also hints that the rise of online gaming may help to boost the profile of arcades, as the cabinets in them move increasingly away from being standalone machines and towards being networked devices. Now, we have unified logon from any networked computer. Lucio came round last night with the equipment to network our computers. So far, Saha plans to install networked servers running Linux to handle most e-mail and web-related tasks for each of the 70 schools in the area. There are more than 700 networked machines located in casinos throughout Nevada and the jackpot grows each time a coin drops into any of them. With Zigbee networked microprocessors you can link your lights with your cellphone. It will feature high-end multimedia workstations, networked wireless laptops and express-type terminals. We're going through a change right now, thanks to a wave of technical and social change and to the arrival of cheap, networked computers. The company's Avid Unity MediaNetwork is designed specifically for sharing high-bandwidth digital media files between networked workstations. To exploit these services more fully, rural communities could set up telecentres and network personal computers. Now if only they can network my laptop so I can actually print at work. Over the past few years the premises have been completely refurbished and now includes a computer training centre with ten, fully networked computers. 1.2often as noun networkingno object Interact with other people to exchange information and develop contacts, especially to further one's career. 结成关系网 the skills of networking, bargaining, and negotiation Example sentencesExamples Thus, he made up the term social networking to discuss what he was doing. Promotion seekers can use information gathered through networking to improve the quality of their applications. We get a lot of information by networking with other attendees. The structure of the digital sector can best be understood by looking at work relations and at networking as social practice. There'll be a wide variety of workshops, discussions, skills sharing, networking, campaign information and socialising. This can be achieved through networking, language exchange and case studies. When you don't share office space with people, things like networking and exchanging information tend to dry up. Mr Ahmed said the members, mostly Bolton-born, enjoy networking and sharing useful information and contacts. Such alliances can be developed by networking within industry trade groups and organizations that may indirectly impact your industry. But the clash goes beyond professional jealousies and crony networking. Meetings permit exchange of ideas and knowledge, professional development, and networking, while financially sustaining sponsors. An important step is researching and networking to gather information about organisations and positions, says Notton. Such ritual practices are often only seen as interesting diversions or attachments to the main social issues involved in networking. Bastions of old boy networking and the occasional social upstart, they epitomise everything that makes me cringe about Oxford. The seminar afforded committees time for networking and sharing information on the work of individual centres. However, when we take social networking online, we lose this vital piece of information and categorization. There are three very essential functions of gossip: networking, influence and social alliances. I'm a strong believer in networking and sharing information, which I do constantly. The most successful professionals view networking as a two-way street. A tourism networking and information evening will take place on Tuesday, November 15 in Castle Durrow.
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